Flute; Recorder; Violin;
Orchestra; Early Music
SKU: UT.GCE-20
Composed by Francesco
Geminiani. Edited by
Rudolf Rasch. Francesco
Geminiani Opera Omnia.
Classical. Score. Ut
Orpheus #GCE 20.
Published by Ut Orpheus
(UT.GCE-20).
ISBN
9790215328259. 9 x 12
inches.
Given that
appendices have since
been included in other
volumes, it now seems
appropriate to compile an
appendix for Volume 1A in
the form of a separate
publication, Volume 1C of
the series. Even with a
whole volume available,
however, it is impossible
to include all known
arrangements. Such a
publication would be of
disproportionate size: it
would require about 600
pages, due largely to the
two complete or
near-complete sets of
concerto arrangements.
The present volume thus
includes only selections
from these sets of
concerto arrangements and
also only a selection
from Edward
Finch’s complete
set of arrangements in
the form of
transverse-flute sonatas.
The smaller sets of
arrangements—eithe
r as solo sonatas or as
trio sonatas—are
included in their
entirety.
The
available arrangements
fall into three distinct
categories: solo sonatas,
trio sonatas, and
concertos. There are
fourteen arrangements by
Edward Finch for
transverse flute with
figured bass; they are
found in the so-called
Armstrong-Finch
manuscript and comprise a
full set of twelve plus
two duplicate versions.
Four of these
arrangements are included
in the present volume.
Three more arrangements
for transverse flute or
recorder with figured
bass are found in
anthologies of sonatas
for these instruments
published in the 1720s;
they are all of them
edited here.
Geminiani’s
Sonatas VII-XII were
transformed into trio
sonatas by Francesco
Barsanti and published in
this format in 1727.
These arrangements are
included here in complete
form as well. A
near-complete set of
concerto
arrangements—Sonat
a XI is
missing—was
composed by Charles
Avison and a complete set
by Gerhard Christoph
Raupach, both sets
composed probably in the
1730s. From each of these
two sets, two examples
were selected for
inclusion in the present
volume. They are
supplemented by single
concerto arrangements by
William Hayes (after
Sonata IV) and Johan
Helmich Roman (after
Sonata VI), composed at
all probability in the
1730s as well. None of
these concerto
arrangements was
published in the
eighteenth century.
Sonata for Four
